From 1991 to 2012, Kent Allen wrote and edited for the Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, and Congressional Quarterly. He taught upper school journalism and history at The Field School (Washington, DC) from 2011 to 2016. At present he has taken up freelance writing and editing while keeping his hand in teaching as a substitute at several schools. Discussing diversity while sitting in a warm, technologically equipped classroom is light years from spending a few cold days in February on the city streets.